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Lionsgate will be going Reservoir Dogs crazy starting with this new DVD release

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Lionsgate has announced the forthcoming release of Reservoir Dogs 15th Anniversary Edition for 24th October 2006. This film stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn and Steve Buscemi, and is directed by Quentin Tarantino. On the same day Eidos will release "an intense action shooter" game for Reservoir Dogs, which will be available on the Windows, PS2 and Xbox platforms. Lionsgate also plan to sell merchandise such as: posters, action figures, collectible figurines, statues and so on.

Special features on the DVD itself should include: Pulp Factoids Viewer, "Playing It Fast and Loose" documentary, The Reservoir Dogs Tipping Guide, "Profiling the Reservoir Dogs" featurette, Interview with Eidos Senior Marketing Manager Kevin Gill on the Video Game, Deleted Scenes, "Reservoir Dolls" video clip, Reservoir Dogs style guide, Securing the Shot: Location Scouting, The Class of '92 retrospective, K-Billy Sounds of the '70s, and classic interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Tim Roth, the late Chris Penn, and others. There will also be select scene audio commentary featuring the cast, crew and critics.

This release is expected to retail for $19.98 with the games going for $29.99, case artwork showing the "Collectible Oil Can Design" is provided below.

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The packaging is designed purely because this 15th Anniversary Edition lacks the great interviews on the 10th Anniversary edition (arguably that editions best extra feature and even more valuable after the sad passing of Chris Penn), not to mention the footage of tarantino playing mr white (priceless for a fan). The packaging is nice although over the top for 1 film (perhaps better suited for a Tarantino film collection box set?). The new "features" on the 15th AE are also a complete waste of time, and a previous feature that appeared as a funny little easter egg (reservoir dolls for exapmle), is now listed as a legitimit feature, which ironically cheapens it. The unsightly presence of Harry Knowles, lack of action figure doc, film noir doc, and plenty of other tidbits missing, as well as a Pulp factoid that makes the disc stick at times, that leaves 2 things. the packaging and the new transfer. The new transfer is more colourful, but Reservoir Dogs was intended to look gritty and grainy, so this is not the best way to represent it. The option to watch the film in fullscreen on the older discs was also a throwback to watching the video version and so was great for nostalgia. Those that say Tarantino had final say on this DVD should ask "why did he exclude his own interview segments?" The answer is because Lionsgate were in charge of this DVD release, not Tarantino. The Matchbook design is nice though and doesn't mention anything about a 15th anniversary, or the shoddy features (tipping guide?), so just get your hands on that and stick the 10th Anniversary discs inside it.

No Chris Penn tribute? Says it all about a lazy re-release that seemed to go out of its way to dissapoint. The only reason this edition exists is because of the release of the rubbish looking game, and for the packaging, which is ruined by listing all the rubbish features on the back of it.

I only paid $9 for the 10th Anniversary, so I don't feel like I'm feeding the monster. I do *LOVE* this packaging. I don't mind the double dip. It shouldn't be something to get so offended by. If you're not interested, don't buy it, but leave us packaging junkies alone.

The old transfer looked horrible,definitely a good enough reason to pick up the new one.I'm surprised more people weren't unhappy with it,the older non-anamorphic disc looked better.Granted the packaging is a good reason too.

Lincoln6Echo wrote: Hopefully the transfer is better on this one than on the 10th Anniversary Edition. Hmm...forgot about that... maybe if the transfer is a new one I'll bite, but for now I'll take an educated guess and assume this'll have the same exact transfer that's on the 10th Anniversary disc.

Yeah, I'm under the impression the transfer is remastered and the transfer on the old DVD actually isn't all that great. So I would consider that, along with some of the new featurettes and the bad-ass packaging, to be a good enough reason to upgrade. On top of that, I mean, come on, this isn't going to go for more than like $17.99 or something in stores, so why not?

I only paid $4.99 for the 10th Anniversary Edition... so I don't feel like I'd be wasting a bunch of money to double dip on this one - especially if the double dip encourages studios to be creative with their packaging. I mean honestly, compare this to the c**ppy Supergirl art... lazy design vs. creative design.

YOU FOOLS!!!! Lionsgate purchased Live Entertainment, the company that original distributed "Reservoir Dogs," but that doesn't mean anything to them if the DVD is already sitting on your shelves. So they are re-releasing the entire catalog of movies with new packaging in hopes you suckers will help them make money off the investment.

tomreagan wrote: Andy wrote: wow. there is no reason to get this if you have the 10th anniversary edition... Um, WRONG. Did you see the package, dude?! That's if you care about packaging at all, which a lot of people, myself included, don't.

Andy wrote: wow. there is no reason to get this if you have the 10th anniversary edition... Um, WRONG. Did you see the package, dude?! This may be the one double dip where I actually KEEP the original, too! (I don't like having two copies of the same movie - waste of precious space).

However, I do wanna know if there's anything MISSING from the 10th anniversary, that isn't on this edition.

Of course its a marketing gimmick but f**k me is it the coolest package I've seen for a DVD. Holy s**t! I don't own RD so this will do nicely. I 'ear' the 20th edition will be the cops severed part packaging haha! nah kiddin, gern f**k off!

It should come with Marvin's ear, as well. Then and only then will it be a TRUE SE.

And what the hell ever happened to the "Director's Cut"? Sure, we got the deleted/alternate scenes in the 10th anniversary, but there was a time when Tarantino talked about a Director's Cut. I guess we'll just stick that in the BS vault along with "The Vega Brothers", "Kill Bill Vol.3" and the 100 or so other projects/releases he's talked about but has no realistic plans on delivering. "His brother" RR has cranked out twice as many films in the same amount of time, what is QT doing with his time, other than talking about what he wants to do, but never getting around to doing it?

The 10th Anniversary set was pretty packed with featurettes, looks just like a marketing gimmack to me. I need to see the tech specs before I consider double dipping. Lionsgate is known for DTS-ES tracks, let's see.